(Lyrics by Frode Glesnes) (Music by Gerhard Storesund) I've had my courage measured By the great heroic death Behind a grisly image A grim and ghastly wrath A striking portrait hidden In a cruel and ancient vision Dark my pride of bravery Through the eye of Odin I see.... An axe-age,a sword-age.a wind-age,a wolf-age Before the wrecking of the world Soared through storm clouds The force of fate Weaving the web of war Nightfall doomfall Death come forth Beware the Crimson rain Precious arts of warfare Gaining mortal sacrifice The taste of blood the foaming frenzy All berserkers rage Emerging from a bloodred sky As storming birds of prey Shrieking Screaming Raging's menace Catch the blood and await the fallen My spear spreads fear my sword still kill A grinding death my will To be seen to be felt Who dies first who follows after My infinite powers like the Strength of a storming sea So it is for now and So shall it forever be An axe-age,a sword-age.a wind-age,a wolf-age Before the wrecking of the world Soared through storm clouds The force of fate Weaving the web of war Nightfall doomfall Death come forth Beware the Crimson rain Sacrifice my life for Odin's court Grant immortality Rise again to life the heroic dead Await the horns sound In days of yore, in truths of tales then told: (Odin :) You and every one of you Who follow me are born into my clan I mark as my own. An axe-age,a sword-age.a wind-age,a wolf-age Before the wrecking of the world Soared through storm clouds The force of fate Weaving the web of war Nightfall doomfall Death come forth Become the Crimson rain